A New York company building teams of AI agents that take the paperwork off home health and post-acute providers - so clinical staff can spend their hours on patients, not forms.
Most healthcare AI aims at the dramatic moment: the diagnosis, the scan, the second opinion. Arya Health went the other direction. It built software for the parts of care delivery that never make a headline - the onboarding packet, the shift that needs covering, the license that expires next Tuesday.
Founded in 2022 by Kunal Sarda and Arunram Kalaiselvan, Arya develops AI-powered "digital agents" that automate the non-clinical, administrative machinery of distributed care. In practice that means home health, home care, and post-acute providers - the sprawling, hard-to-coordinate world of caregivers who work in patients' homes rather than under one hospital roof. Arya's agents handle onboarding, scheduling, compliance tracking, payroll, hiring, and patient intake, running around the clock and plugging into the electronic medical records providers already use.
The pitch rests on a single uncomfortable statistic the company likes to cite: post-acute care organizations spend roughly 25 cents of every dollar on non-clinical tasks. In a U.S. distributed-care market Arya pegs at around $400 billion, that quarter is enormous - and, the company argues, largely automatable.
"Arya is flipping that equation by using AI to take on the operational burden - so providers can focus on delivering care, not moving patients, caregivers, and data around in their EMR."Kunal Sarda, Co-founder & CEO
Distributed care is coordination-heavy by nature. A single caregiver placement can involve recruiting, background checks, credential verification, scheduling around availability, payroll for hourly shifts, and continuous license compliance. Done manually, it's slow, error-prone, and expensive - and it pulls skilled staff away from patients.
Home health, home care, and post-acute providers across the U.S. - organizations running distributed workforces of nurses, aides, and therapists. Arya references working with providers and brands including:
Rather than one monolithic tool, Arya ships discrete agents mapped to the caregiver lifecycle. Each is priced against the cost of the admin work it replaces.
Automates applicant and new-hire onboarding - cutting time-to-first-staffing by ~50% with about 70% less admin effort.
Recruits, screens, and schedules caregivers autonomously, reducing human effort by roughly 60%.
Tracks licenses and certifications and handles renewals. Deploys in about one week.
Handles shift scheduling and capacity management across distributed caregiver teams.
Automates payroll processing for hourly and distributed clinical staff.
Accelerates patient start-of-care and intake workflows. Announced for launch in Q4 2025.
Arya doesn't try to replace the electronic medical record - a heavy, entrenched system providers rarely swap. Instead its agents sit alongside EMRs like WellSky, HomeCare HomeBase, and AlayaCare and do the tedious clicking around them. The focus is narrow on purpose: non-clinical admin for distributed care, not general clinical AI.
B2B SaaS with an outcome-tilted twist. Arya prices each agent competitively against the cost of hiring an administrator, and ties fees to measurable results:
The framing matters: buyers compare the agent to a salary line, not a software subscription.
The 2025 Series A drew Ridge Ventures, returning seed lead Twelve Below, and a group of OpenAI executives alongside post-acute care providers - a combination of model expertise and domain buyers in a single round. Total raised to date sits near $25 million.
The team pairs AI/ML engineering with hands-on post-acute operating experience - a deliberate mix given how domain-specific the workflows are.
Sarda and Kalaiselvan start Arya in NYC to automate healthcare's non-clinical work.
Twelve Below leads a seed to build AI-powered healthcare human capital management.
Agent suite expands; company reports roughly six-fold revenue growth for the year.
ACME Capital leads; Intake Agent announced for Q4.
Arya sits at the intersection of three trends: an aging population pushing care into the home, a chronic shortage of coordinators to run those operations, and a new generation of AI agents capable of handling multi-step workflows. Its alternatives are the status quo - in-house admin staff and staffing coordinators - plus healthcare HCM and applicant-tracking tools like Nevvon and Hireology, and a widening field of healthcare AI-agent startups.
The company's wager is that providers will increasingly choose agents over headcount for back-office work, the same way they already lean on their EMR for records. Whether that shift arrives as fast as Arya's ~6x growth suggests is the open question - but it has named the bottleneck clearly, and built specifically for it.
It builds AI-powered digital agents that automate non-clinical administrative work - onboarding, scheduling, compliance, payroll and hiring - for home health and post-acute care providers, working alongside their existing EMRs.
Kunal Sarda (CEO) and Arunram Kalaiselvan (CTO) founded the company in 2022. It is headquartered in New York City.
Roughly $25M total: a $4.0M seed led by Twelve Below in 2024 and an $18.2M Series A led by ACME Capital in October 2025.
Its agents are designed to work alongside leading post-acute and home health EMRs such as WellSky, HomeCare HomeBase (HCHB) and AlayaCare rather than replacing them.
Agents are priced competitively against the cost of hiring administrative staff, with fees tied to measurable outcomes like patients enrolled, caregivers hired, shifts staffed and compliance items completed.
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